“The U.S. Senate is the most prestigious nursing home in the world.” This is the assessment made by the New York Times on the 12th, saying that the aging of American politics, especially the Senate, is serious. Senator Lindsey Graham (71) of the ruling Republican Party, President Donald Trump's closest ally, died on the 11th from an aortic rupture due to arteriosclerosis. Meanwhile, former Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell (84), who is known to have symptoms of pneumonia, has not appeared in public since last month. Although Senator McConnell denies this, the Washington Post (WP) reported that rescue workers who were dispatched to his home last month even performed CPR. The WP pointed out that the ‘controversy over aging’ in the Senate is reigniting, saying, “The Senate has repeatedly experienced aging and disease problems for a long time, but has never properly established systems and regulations to respond to these situations.” ● Median age in the Senate is 64.7 years old… According to last year's data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the median age of Americans (about 330 million people) is 39.1 years old. On the other hand